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Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac: What's the Best Dev Platform for You?  Dice Insights

GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel ...  Slashdot

Windows 11's New 'Never Combine' Icons Feature Is Almost Unusable  Slashdot

TuxClocker has been in development for several years as another open-source GPU overclocking GUI for Linux. TuxClocker initially provided a Qt5-based user interface for GPU overclocking and ultimately established a D-Bus API as well with the new release. TuxClocker 1.0 was finally released today as the latest update to this Linux GPU overclocking software...

TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux  Phoronix

A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems...

sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern ...  Phoronix

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 w/ AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U ...  Phoronix

The past few weeks I've been putting the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD mobile workstation through its paces that is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U SoC. Besides uncovering one BIOS issue that is in the process of being resolved, this latest-generation AMD-powered laptop that features 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and integrated Radeon graphics with 2.8K OLED display has been working out well on modern Linux distributions. Here's a look at this AMD Zen 4 laptop running on Linux and plenty of performance benchmarks for this laptop.

ChimeraOS Linux 44 out now with improved support for various ...  GamingOnLinux

Vali Cyber™ Secures $15M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Linux ...  Portada-online.com

How to Safely Free Up Space in the Boot Partition on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

GNOME 46 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 20th, 2024  9to5Linux

For a year and a half now Pensando has been working on enabling their Elba SoC support for the mainline Linux kernel - a process that coincidentally began just days after AMD announced it was acquiring Pensando. Over the past 18 months the AMD-Pensando Elba SoC enablement work has now been through 16 rounds of code review but still isn't over the finish line yet but some of the initial enablement code might finally land with Linux 6.7...

Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally ...  Phoronix

Vali Cyber™ Secures $15M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Linux ...  Business Wire

Firefox 119 Promises to Let You Import Some of Your Chrome Extensions  9to5Linux

The first of three parts for MSG_ZEROCOPY preparations for the VirtIO-Vsock driver have been queued into net-next ahead of planned introduction in the Linux 6.7 kernel as another means of achieving greater performance within virtual machines...

VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7 ...  Phoronix

Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter  The Register